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Bizarre creature found in 200-million-year-old cocoon
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| 12/8/2012 10:41:07 AM ET
Posted on 12/09/2012 1:46:24 PM PST by BenLurkin
"This preservation is quite bizarre, but soft-bodied organisms cannot usually become fossilized unless they are rapidly entombed in a medium that prevents further decay," study researcher and paleobotanist Benjamin Bomfleur, of the Biodiversity Institute at the University of Kansas, told LiveScience.
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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs
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Soem kind of prehistoric Fluke?
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posted on
12/09/2012 1:46:33 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Soem kind of prehistoric Fluke? A prehistoric Fluke? Did it have condoms?
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posted on
12/09/2012 1:49:14 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(GOPe: Already prepping for their 2016 loss - Jeb Bush!)
To: BenLurkin
Did it have a packet of birth control pills tucked under some part of its organism?
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posted on
12/09/2012 1:49:42 PM PST
by
livius
To: BenLurkin; SunkenCiv
... prehistoric buggies ping.
To: COBOL2Java
Great minds run in the same gutter...
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posted on
12/09/2012 1:50:15 PM PST
by
livius
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/09/2012 1:50:23 PM PST
by
Beowulf9
To: BenLurkin
the Late Triassic Period, when the Earth was much warmer, with dense rain forests flourishing along what is today the Transantarctic Mountain Range Job #1 -- Save the rain forests
Job #2 -- Make sure the Earth doesn't get too warm
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posted on
12/09/2012 1:55:02 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Republicans have made themselves useless, toothless, and clueless.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/09/2012 1:56:14 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(C'mon, Folks ....)
To: mikrofon
That’s againts the rules, and you know it!
8^)
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posted on
12/09/2012 1:58:04 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: BenLurkin
Bizarre creature found in 200-million-year-old cocoon "This preservation is quite bizarre, but soft-bodied organisms cannot usually become fossilized unless they are rapidly entombed in a medium that prevents further decay. . . ."
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posted on
12/09/2012 1:58:19 PM PST
by
Charles Henrickson
(Helen of Thomas: The face that launched a thousand quips.)
To: BenLurkin
A larval Great Old One (Lovcraftian nasty).
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posted on
12/09/2012 2:51:13 PM PST
by
Lee N. Field
("And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" Gal 3:29)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
12/09/2012 2:56:55 PM PST
by
50sDad
(A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here.)
To: COBOL2Java
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posted on
12/09/2012 3:03:24 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Why is the government more concerned about protecting a microbe on Mars than an unborn baby here?)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Probably has Jimmy Hoffa DNA.
To: BenLurkin
It’s wonder mslsd didn’t say cocoon is a racist code word.
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posted on
12/09/2012 3:28:49 PM PST
by
Vaduz
To: livius
"What Fluke complain about again?"
"She say we all responsible for supporting her happy time!"
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posted on
12/09/2012 3:38:18 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(GOPe: Already prepping for their 2016 loss - Jeb Bush!)
To: BenLurkin
I’ve seen this movie before...
DON’T OPEN THAT COCOON!!!!!!....
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posted on
12/09/2012 5:27:34 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Red Badger
lol
Ridley, get the flame thrower!
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posted on
12/09/2012 5:35:12 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: GeronL
We may have to nuke us from space.....
.
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posted on
12/09/2012 5:43:03 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: BenLurkin
Bill Clinton’s freeing up his date calendar even as we speak.
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posted on
12/09/2012 5:54:50 PM PST
by
Rastus
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